Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-09-10
DRINKS OF POPULAR PEOPLE.
Cups that have Cheered Rulers,
Writer'S, and Actors Of NOte-Charac-
ter shown by FavOrite Triples.

From the London telegraph.
Perhaps one might theorize about character
from favor1te drinks as much as from "palmistry'
or handwriting. Let US see: Napoleon had the
heart, II ever a man had, OF despot. He drank
strong black coffee, the sutan's drink, and Cham
berlin, the rich wine of princes. Cromwell and
George of Clarence were both ambitious, with
very opposite endings. Both loved Maimsey,
which, tradition asserts drowned the latter In the
Jewel Tower. Richelieu, the cold, crafty, calcu-
lating cardinal, loved the thin red wine OF Medoc.
The magnificent and high-spirited monarch,
hoS ana "a Francis OF france ovee wna
good sherris sack" Edmund Kean's cratic mag
nincent genius and mad career were nourished on
brandy, which was, indeed, life to the unhappy
tragedian. Dogan tells us that after his return,
utterly broken, in 1927, only constant glasses OF
drown brandy, very hot and very strong" en-
abled him to get through his scenes. Add1SOn'S
polished eQuable essays were written on moderate
rotations OF excellent claret. Chas. Lamp, most
Perennlaily charming OF essay1sts, was athorough
Londoner In heart and his favorite drink was genu-
Inc London porter. Pitt and EldOn, VINO repre-
sented the older order OF things, both loved port
OF which the chancellor could drink three bottles
Peter the Great was genius and equally bar
carian, with fiery temper and unoridled WILL
We are not surprised, speaking as theorists, to
pepper. King John was an unbridled and fercely
cruel tyrant, And IT, as G. r. Sims says In one Of
MS stories. mans disordered liver can make MIN
a fend, what wonder? For King John loved
draughts OF new ale, surfeit OF which, with
peaches, is supposed to have led to his DEATH DR..
johnson was strange mixture OF tOryism OF the
ancient eighteenth century schOol-broad and
many Lined knowledge and goodness Of heart and
life-and great nervousness. He loved in mOdera-
dion punch and port wine, ana, by his own an
drinker, whose Kettle had seldom time to
COOL" One cannot theOriZe about Person,
the famous Greek scholar, who, 1t Is said,
could cap from memory any line quoted
from the three Greek tragedians, EschuyluS,
Sophocles or Euripides for he drank anything. In
AA0C f,n I'll M lynyyc
he vowed, much to her husbands annoyance, that
she had private bottle OF spirits, and, rummag1ng
about, found one still more to his friends annoy
ance, OF which he drank the contents. He left on
the ladys return. Her husband, having mentioned
this in a vexed manner, she said, 'GoOd Heavens!
Cooper, the great surgeon (wEO in 1915, received
during the various months OF the year f21, 900 In
1eeS), and who, Shaving at his profession twelve
hours daily, said he could digest anything but
"sawdust, drank two tumblerS of water at dinner
and two glaSseS-never exceeding them-Of port
lating nature was summed up in his advice to his
SubordinateS, "AbOve all, no zeal!" His favOrite
potatiOn was claret in moderate glasses
Henri Quatre, Frances favOr1te monarch, whose
chivalrOuS memory even the fierce republican
mObS OF 1892 at first respected. loved the wines OF
Surennes, and never, as rule, drank anything
else. Byron was fond Of two very different pOta-
were typical OF his Two styles OF pOetry-OGe was
hook and soda water, then very new beverage in
England; the other was gin and water. Frederick
the Great, like good many other persons, had q
particular affection for TOkaO. Peter the Great
thought Madeira the best OF wines, but regarded
the strange taste to esteem Marsha the finest OF
wines